Ornamented fabric and method of producing the same



April 2l, l19215. L5344 H. A. VAN LIEW ORNAMENTED FBRIC AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME Filed Jan. 9. 1925 Patented Apr. 21, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFFlcE.

i HENRY A. VAN LIEW, SPRINGFIELD, -NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO ORIENTAL SILK PRINTING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

ORNAMENTED FABRIC ANI) METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME.

Application led January 9, 1923.

To all fte/Lola 'it may fo/weint.'

Be it known that I, HENRY A. VAN Lnnv,

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Springeld, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have made and invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ornamented Fabrics and Methods of Producing the Same, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a novelly ornamented fabric and the process of producing the same.

rlhe roller printing process` due to its economical operation and high yardage per machine, has largely displaced the hand or block printing process for the ornamentation of material, The size of a. design that may be produced by the roller printing process is however quite limited, due to the limited diameter of successful and practical printing rolls. ln actual practice it has been found that a printing roll of approximately 2O to 24e in circumference is about the largest that can be successfully produced and operated and therefore the printing of panels, large handkerchief squares or table covers comprising a single or unitary design of large size has heretofore been produced by the slow and necessarily costly block printing or hand decorating process.

It is accordingly an object of my invention to pro-vide an ornamented fabric having printed thereon a continuously recurring pattern of such size that it may be produced by a printing roll of ordinary circumference and two or more of which patterns or repeats of the printing roll will amalgamate and join together to form congruent, unitary designs of large size.

A further object is to provide a pattern or printing roll and a method whereby two or more impressions of the printing roll will amalgamate and join together' to form a single, congruent and unitary design and thus provide for the economical printing by the roller printing process of large panels or handkerchief squares, table covers, rugs, carpets, and various other articles heretofore considered impossible to produce by a roller printing process and accordingly produced by a block printing or hand decorating method.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention resides in the novel, ornainented material or fabric illustrated in CII Serial No. 611,662.

the accompanying drawing and in the process and roller for producing the same, all as hereinafter described and claimed, and in such variations and modifications thereof as will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which my invention relates, it being understood that changes may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit thereof.

In the drawing accompanying this specilication and forming a part thereof:

Figure l vis a plan view of a pattern and developed view of ak printing roller embodying the characteristic features. of my invention;

Figure. 2 .is a plan view of a strip of material ornamented by the pattern of the printing roller illustrated in Figure l and by full lines illustrating the amalgamation of contiguous impressions or repeats into one enlarged` congruent and unitary design;

Figure 3 is a plan view of a somewhat different pat-tern and developed view of a printing roller having the particular pattern thereon; and

Figure t is a plan view of a fabric or strip of material ornamented by the printing roller as illustrated in Figure 3 and illustrating by full lines the manner in which three contiguous impressions amalgamate and join together to form one enlarged, congruent and unitary design.

Referring specifically to Figure l, havc found that if a pattern A of such nature and characteristics be incorporated upon a printing roller B (Figure l representing a developed view thereof) and a continuous strip of material such as C in Figure 2 be printed or decorated thereby, there will be produced upon the continuous strip of material, an amalgamation of contiguous or adjacent impressions, the impression D th'us amalgamating with the adjacent impression E to form the ornamcnted portion F of the material which contains a single, unitary and congruent design suoli as illustrated by the full lines in Figure 2. The material may accordingly be used for large handkerchief squares, table covers, etc., heretofore only produced by the slow and necessarily costly block printing process.

In like manner, I have found that this novel method and novelly ornamented material may be produced as illustrated in Figures 3 and t, Figure 3 being a developed llt) View of a roller G bearing a novel and characteristic pattern H thereon. W'hen the continuous strip material K is passed beneath and ornamented by this roller and pattern, then the individual repeats L, M and O will join together and amalgamate to form a single, congruent and unitary de sign R, the design R apparently possessing none of the outstanding characteristics of the original pattern H, and being apparently composed of two overlapping andV oppositely facing half moons S symmetrically arranged with respect to a centralized circle T.

Thus I have built up a single unitary and congruent design from three contiguous impressions of the printing roller, so that practically any size of unitary design may be produced, and carpets, table covers, rugs, and similar articles may thus be economically produced by my novel roller printing process.

lVhile I have illustrated my invention as being carried o'ut with two and with three repeats of the printing roller, it will be readily appreciated that four or more repeats may be thus joined together; nor do I wish to limit myself to the particular patterns illustrated, as it will be apparent that other patterns may be developed which will lend themselves equally well to my novei process and novelly ornamented material.

y novel process of ornamenting or deco-A rating cloth or material is of enormous value to the roller printing trade and it is now possible to produce by the roller print ing process a great many articles which have heretofore only been produced by the slow, cumbersome and accordingly expensive block printing method or actual hand decoration, and having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and dcsire to secure by Letters Patent is:

Apparatus for printing a design pattern upon a strip of fabric material consisting of a roller having in relietI upon its periphery a fractional section only of the pattern of the complete design, the lines of the de sign section upon the roller being symmetrical with relation to the median dimensions of the design section and the lines of the design section upon the roller having points which register with each other at the surface of the roller whereby the pattern section upon the roller is devoid of break.

Signed at- New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 5th day of January A. D. 1923;

HENRY A. VAN LIElV.

IVitnesses HELEN LoUisE RANDELL, HERMAN L. MURRAY. 

